The QLD Public Sector Code of Ethics – And How the QRIC’s Spin Doctor Has Smashed it Into a Thousand Little Pieces
Now I don’t know how you take this message that the QRIC’s spin doctor Chris Reid sent to me recently, but the way I read it is that “I don’t like the crap you write, and if you don’t change course right now you can get fucked, and you will get nothing from us”. Do […]
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band Are Boogieing With the Wrong Bookie in the Jigger Case – But His Client Who is Instructing Him Already Knows That, Don’t You Texas?
Murdoch KC and the Sunshine Band – his client Todd Austin and patrons – have been going after Mt Isa bookie Graham Saunders at the jigger inquiry, accusing him of funding Ric McMahon’s legal defence, with the obvious objective being to shift blame for the jigger use away from Austin and solely onto McMahon and […]
Will Hulbert’s a Very Slow Learner – And Ben Dorries is a Fool
I like to swear, more for emphasis and to challenge boundaries than anything else, and to fit my literary character as the bloke sitting on the bar stool at the Geebung RSL shooting the shit with my mates about racing. But I write for a subscription website and all the readers are over 18. Ben […]
A Wholly Unsatisfactory Response From the QRIC Regarding the Ongoing Involvement in the Racing Industry of an Accused Child Sex Offender
A QRIC spokesperson has provided the following statement in relation to questions that we posed this morning regarding a person charged with child sex offences holding a license to work with at a racing stable and perform their employment duties in the mounting yard of a metropolitan South East Queensland race track. We thank the […]
Alleged Child Sex Offending Licensee Update
We are pleased to announce that within 90 minutes of us posting this morning’s highly disturbing story about the accused child sex offender in the mounting yard at Saturday’s races, we have received further mail that the alleged grub’s license has been taken away. It is our great hope that a ban order preventing the […]
Is the QRIC Allowing an Alleged Child Sex Offender to Work in a Leading Racing Stable While on Bail?
We are hearing deeply disturbing rumours that a licensed person working in the stables of a well known South-East Queensland trainer is one of the men in the QPS media release below who was last week arrested on child sex charges. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was granted bail after his […]
This is a Story About Racing
Five men have been charged with multiple child sex offences following a joint investigation by officers from Argos and the Gold Coast Child Protection and Investigation Unit. The investigation commenced on November 20 on the Gold Coast, identifying the men engaging with Argos Detectives online where they arranged to meet and access a child. It […]
The Controversy Over the Chief Steward’s Birdsville Direction is a Distraction – Rion Hitchener’s Attempted Cover Up is the Real Issue
Senior steward on the ground in Birdsville told the inquiry they were not required to search the campsites of Austin or McMahon the morning after the image was posted on Twitter, despite having the power to do so. Rion Hitchener said former chief steward Peter Chadwick instructed him and fellow stipe Ben Cook not to […]
Why Were There Six Stewards Rostered on For Duty at Toowoomba, On the Night of Their Mate From QRIC’s Wedding Reception at the Track?
Last Saturday’s card at the Gold Coast was the main racing show in Queensland, the metro meeting. The races on the program carried prizemoney of between $75 000 and $150 000. Prizemoney at the Toowoomba meeting was between $21 500 and $30 000. Betting turnover on the Coast meeting was 4-5 times the amount held […]